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Joni Mitchell would go on from this '71 recording to make
more popular, more ambitious, and more challenging albums,
but she's never made a better one. Working with minimal
accompaniment (Stephen Stills and James Taylor are two of the
four sidemen), the Canadian thrush summoned an involving song
cycle of romance found and lost.
Though Blue is an uncommonly intimate representation, it's also astonishingly open and
gracious. Songs such as "All I Want," "Carey," "California,"
and "A Case of You" work equally well as poetry and pop music.
--Steven Stolder, Amazon.com
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